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Monday, July 21, 2008
Using Social Networking Tools to Engage the Wisdom of Teachers - Joe Moxley & Ryan Meehan, Kairos
As compositionists, we can learn from encyclopedic enthusiasts, musicians, and news junkies who are testing the limits of new literacy tools. We need to revise our courses and practices to better account for the demands of new collaborative literacies. Because environments like the ones we listed above thrive all over the Internet, we should encourage our students to write in them; we can use social networking tools to move away from the "teacher as examiner" audience and the arhetorical, busywork that has undermined our efforts. Within communities like the ones described above, students can write documents for tangible audiences, which can often lead to a greater sense of accountability on the part of the author.
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